How much a smartphone really needs RAM to perform all the declared functions, and how many GB the user simply overpays for is a question that has to be sorted out.
Competition in the segment of TOP mobile devices is quite high. The use of premium materials in the body of a smartphone is no longer surprising. So the manufacturer has ceased to please the eye of its admirers with design chips, all the emphasis is strictly on the technical part.
And here is simple arithmetic - the larger the number in the description of all the advantages of the hardware of a mobile device, the more attractive it is on the store shelf. The only problem is that not all technical specifications are due to hardware requirements. Techies in flight, marketers rule the world!
By itself, the Android operating system is not very gluttonous, the consumption of RAM or, in a smart way, LPDDR is not too high. The times when smartphones were equipped with 512 GB of RAM and without any problems performed their functions of a mobile media center have not yet been erased in memory.
Naturally, Android itself has changed, it began to consume much more resources: more animation appeared, more services running in the background, the speed and smoothness of scrolling changed. Together with the operating system, they increased their appetite and applications, and games began to amaze with graphics and dynamic scenes.
Before announcing how much RAM a smartphone needs for normal operation, it is necessary to mention the software shells loved by many from the manufacturers themselves. Miui from Xiaomi, Eui from Huawei, Flyme from Meizu.
Installed on top of pure Android, they not only expand the functionality of the entire device, add their own corporate graphic style to the system, but also enjoy RAM with pleasure. This must be taken into account when buying a smartphone with a small amount of RAM. But we must admit that all these shells are perfectly optimized and their resource consumption is not great.
Today, the average user is quite satisfied with 3-4 GB of RAM on board his smartphone. About 1 GB is taken by the system and the shell stretched over it, a couple of MB are taken by open applications that are hanging open in the background. The rest of the Ram is needed to run resource-intensive games and graphics editors.
An unused 4 GB RAM resource is just a start for the future, at the moment there are no games or any applications that require 6 or 8 GB Ram
